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Alan H
@alan678.bsky.social
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Love photography, a few photos actually published. 😁 All photos ( excluding reposts) posted by me belong to me. This is an inclusive of all friendly place. Host #BirdOfTheDay with Rob. #EastCoastKin Arts Collective Member
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Alan H @alan678.bsky.social · 14h
Don’t mind me. Just here for an hour to do some #BirdOfTheDay peeking. Hope everyone has been behaving 😁 #photography #EastCoastKin
A shaggy Irish sheep stands in a snowy field, facing the camera with strands of green grass hanging from its mouth. Its thick, cream-coloured wool hangs in long, textured locks, and its face is marked with dark patches around the nose and eyes. In the foreground, a moss-covered branch stretches across the snow, while soft winter light illuminates the sheep against a blurred background of muted trees.
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dbminshall.bsky.social
The #BirdOfTheDay theme is #OddCouples, two different birds in one capture… .. This Oystercatcher and Curlew were photographed at Lamplighters Marsh, Bristol (03.01.26). #avonbirds #ukwildlife #birds @alan678.bsky.social
February 10, 2026 at 9:37 PM
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belleab.bsky.social
Not quite sure what’s going on with this interesting tree!! 🪾🤔 #thicktrunktuesday #trees #nature #stonepine #centralpark #nyc #newyork #photography
February 10, 2026 at 9:32 PM
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trailwalker13.bsky.social
🎼And the seasons they go round and round
And the painted ponies go up and down
We’re captured on a carousel of time
We can’t return we can only look behind
From where we came
And go round and round and round
In the circle game

Made it out for a woodland walk today! #woodland #EastCoastKin 😊
February 10, 2026 at 8:14 PM
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infinite8horizon.com
♥️🙏
I'd heard a rumour about you and kingfishers 🤣
With my best wishes, then:
#birds #EastCoastKin
Willy wagtail attempting to displace a sacred kingfisher Willy wagtail attempting to displace a sacred kingfisher Willy wagtail, having failed with the approach-direct, tries menacing looks, to no avail. Kingfisher off to catch breakfast
February 10, 2026 at 8:52 PM
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w-hope.bsky.social
Why is it always her who plays the beauty ?
said the white fowl about the turkey 🦃

#BirdOfTheDay for @alan678.bsky.social 🤗

#OddCouples #birds #photography #EastcoastKin
Une dinde bleu qui fait glougloute au soleil mais qui semble laisser indifférent un faisan blanc qui regarde ailleurs ... le tout dans un décor très verdoyant. 📷🕊️
February 10, 2026 at 9:15 PM
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infinite8horizon.com
@alan678.bsky.social #BirdOfTheDay theme is #OddCouples

I have too many, as usual... 1) open conflict 2) pecking order 3) coexistence
1)
curlew, magpie larks, friarbird
Blue-wing kooka, friarbird
Wagtail, kingfisher
Kookaburra, noisy miner
#photography #birds #gift #EastCoastKin
Two magpie larks and little friarbird harassing a bush stone curlew (who won) Little friarbird harassing a blue-wing kookaburra Willy wagtail attempting to displace a sacred kingfisher (it failed) Kookaburra daring a noisy miner to come within range of its beak
February 10, 2026 at 8:30 PM
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they-live-among-us.bsky.social
#birdoftheday #urban
#wildlife #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #photography #birds
#eastcoastkin
A red-tailed hawk sits perched on top of a light pole, cast in late afternoon light. The bird is facing the camera, but looking down and slightly to the left side of the frame, hunting for prey on the ground below.
February 10, 2026 at 6:04 PM
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ideachris.bsky.social
My two little pottery birds #oddcouple #birdoftheday #eastcoastkin #art #handmade #wetclay #handbuilding
Two ceramic birds formed with wet clay painted colorfully balancing on wire legs
February 10, 2026 at 6:02 PM
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stevewhiteraven.bsky.social
I like the casual crossed legs
#BirdOfTheDay #OddCouples #birds #photography #EastCoastKin
February 10, 2026 at 6:01 PM
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ccgreen.bsky.social
Starling for the alt theme #birdoftheday of #urban
#birds
February 10, 2026 at 5:58 PM
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mygardenuk.bsky.social
One for today’s alt of #Urban for the #BirdOfTheDay theme as chosen by
@alan678.bsky.social which is #OddCouples , two different birds in one capture.

Here are a couple of Pigeons in a car body workshop.

“It wasn’t me” 😂

#Birds #Pigeon #PigeonSky
February 10, 2026 at 6:15 PM
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lizskye.bsky.social
#BirdOfTheDay #OddCouples a Stonechat and a Curlew at Redcastle, MorayFirth
February 10, 2026 at 6:30 PM
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sandra-aamodt.bsky.social
Tawny eagle ignoring white-backed vultures at Sabi Sand Reserve in South Africa. I had to dig pretty deep for this one; I almost never put two birds in the frame.
#BirdOfTheDay #OddCouples #birds
Brown eagle at the top right of a dead tree looks out away from two brown vultures with white heads at the bottom left on another branch
February 10, 2026 at 6:46 PM
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jon5cents.bsky.social
🪶 #OddCouples is the perfect theme for #BirdOfTheDay on #Twosday. Here are a red-legged honeycreeper and a silver-throated tanager (with a prong-billed barbet blurry in the background). #birds #photography
A slender branch rises horizontally from the left side, where a red-legged honeycreeper perches, to the right, where a silver-throated tanager sits with its back to the camera, but looking left.
February 10, 2026 at 6:46 PM
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wouterkbouter.bsky.social
Today is for #oddcouples and I found a fitting one on #RathlinIsland last year. A Lesser(?) Black-backed Gull (Larus fuscus) trying to steal away a Common Guillemot (Uria aalge), while the rest of them just looks on. Enjoy!

#birdoftheday #wildlife #birds #mantelmeeuw #zeekoet #northernireland
February 10, 2026 at 6:47 PM
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goodgodsophie.bsky.social
#BirdOfTheDay #OddCouples
3 of these feature one of my all time faves the Grey Heron. Crows, Cormorant, Kestrel, and Flamingos all make an appearance.
Heron and crow in flight Heron and Flamingos on Salt Lake Heron and cormorant at the edge of the pond Kestrel sat in tree with buzzard in flight above
February 10, 2026 at 6:49 PM
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awiner.bsky.social
The #BirdOfTheDay theme is #OddCouples , two different birds in one capture - here's two very different gulls, a small Franklin's Gull trying to push around a much larger Western Gull. (A third species of gull is at the bottom right.) 🪶
A first-year Franklin's Gull lunging at a third-year Western Gull. A first-year Franklin's Gull sticking it's bill into a third-year Western Gull's side. The Western Gull is not impressed. A bonus Heermann's Gull is having nothing to do with it.
February 10, 2026 at 6:50 PM
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swandiveswim.bsky.social
#Birds #Duck Alan H ‪@alan678.bsky.social‬
chose today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme as #OddCouples , two different birds in one capture. I offer little Green Winged Teal behind a Mallard hen.
3 ducks on a log in the sun. Center front a Mallard hen facing right, all in brown with orange legs. Behind is a Teal hen with her head turned away. Next is a Teal drake with a copper coloured head and dark green band. Just peeking through on the wing, is an iridescent strip of green.
February 10, 2026 at 6:51 PM
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figureoutthesea.ca
#BirdOfTheDay #Urban

Aphrodite being birthed from the sea foam. Or a Canada Goose jumping out of a fountain, take your pick

-- Vancouver, August 2024

#photography #birds
A Canada Goose jumping out of a fountain on its edge, wings partly spread and dripping
February 10, 2026 at 6:58 PM
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marinamueller935.bsky.social
#BirdOfTheDay #OddCouples

Juvenile Black-crowned Night Heron & Great Blue Heron comparing notes on effective hunting techniques 😏
Juvenile Black-crowned Night Heron at left & Great Blue Heron on the right, with cattails as their backdrop
February 10, 2026 at 6:59 PM
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swandiveswim.bsky.social
#Birds #Flicker Alan H ‪@alan678.bsky.social‬
#BirdOfTheDay theme alt is #Urban , birds in an urban environment. The Northern Flicker, is a bit timid, but familiar sight in residential areas. A happy visitor at suet feeders or patrolling lawns in search of ant larvae, or under eaves for cocoons.
A woodpecker type bird, clings to a red brick façade under metal eaves. A grey beak, red moustache, grey head with a blush of brown around a shiny black eye. The breast feathers, light brown, are heavily spotted. The back is a dark brown with black horizontal dashes.
February 10, 2026 at 7:01 PM
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cumberlandjc.bsky.social
Urban !? I hear you query. Which is exactly what I thought when I saw Turkey Vultures close over our hotel in PortStanley, the most #Urban place in the FalklandIslands.
500mm f9 1:2000 ISO800
#BirdOfTheDay #Birds #Raptor #EastCoastKin #FebruArty2026 #Fear #Wildlife
Photo of a Turkey Vulture flying over the out of focus sound outside our hotel in Port Stanley Falkland Islands A huge black avian predator seen here flying towards the camera, its red head turned to one side and its wings at an angle the light shining through the wings making them seem paler than they are. Enough to put the fear into any smaller bird they were seen around all the penguin and shag breeding colonies and also where any scavenging of dead livestock might be found.
February 10, 2026 at 7:01 PM
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ru12bseen.com
Well, this is a fun theme. I have a few #oddCouples for the #birdoftheday today. #nikon #wilidlife #eastcoastkin
Cardinals and Eastern Bluebird face each other down at a flat tray feeder. Photo of a red cardinal and an eastern bluebird where the Cardinal is airborne with wings and feet tucked for landing. The bluebird appears to be wondering if this cardinal is going to run into it. A red cardinal and dark eyed junco stand in the snow. A carolina wren and a downy woodpecker share a feed spindle.
February 10, 2026 at 7:02 PM
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annaherrington.bsky.social
Raven and Turkey vulture having a beach day.
Someone looks a bit covetous.
#BirdOfTheDay #OddCouples
#birds #raven #turkeyvulture #nature #photography
Scrawny-looking raven on left, claw on its find, eating some kind of dead thing. Turkey vulture on right looking over at the raven. San all around, ocean waves blurred in background.
February 10, 2026 at 7:05 PM
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hceedee.bsky.social
Chaffinch, 25 Jun '15.

#BirdOfTheDay #Urban 🪶
February 10, 2026 at 7:09 PM